Just when Zheng Yi was entangled in the inability to get in touch with the central government and a lot of work could not be carried out, it was not clear that the news that the Red Fourth Division had successfully jumped out of the encirclement and went north to western Fujian had been reported to Li Jishen, commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Army by Xu Jingtang, commander of the Fifth Army of the Guangdong Army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the urgent telegram sent to Li Jishen, Xu Jingtang accurately judged that the mysterious force that brought the Red Fourth Division out of the encirclement was the instructor led by Zheng Yi.

The instructor of the Communist Red Army actually went to western Fujian, and because of the strong combat effectiveness and strong expansionism that he had shown in the previous series of battles, the entire northern Guangdong region had just strangled the communist armed forces, and in the blink of an eye it would face even greater threats and challenges.

Prior to this, Li Jishen, one of the four giants of the Gui family, had learned that Tingzhou, which was located in the border area of Jiangxi and Fujian, was occupied by communist forces, but he mistakenly believed that it was the work of local communist forces, which belonged to the disease of scabies, and did not arouse sufficient vigilance.

According to various intelligence, especially the news transmitted by merchants who traveled between the upper and lower reaches of the Gan River, Zheng Yi's two regiments were still stationed in the area of Ningdu and Yudu, and Xingguo had been under a tight blockade by the Communist forces, which gave Li Jishen and Yang Chisheng of Ganzhou the illusion that Zheng Yi's troops were still stranded in southern Gansu.

After receiving Xu Jingtang's urgent telegram, Li Jishen looked at the map and immediately found that the situation was very serious, and it was greatly beyond his control, and the entire Jiangxi-Fujian region and northern Guangdong region would undergo unpredictable huge changes due to the rise and expansion of the strong army of the instructor.

Therefore, after pondering deeply, Li Jishen immediately telegraphed Xu Jingtang to postpone the retreat, deploy the main force on the line of Meizhou and Sanheba, and transfer the garrison regiments of the two places to Jiaoling, closely monitor the border area of Jiangxi and Guangdong, and prevent the surging department and Zheng Yi's department from converging and turning south and making a comeback.

At the same time, Li Jishen sent telegrams to the central government in Nanjing and to Commander-in-Chief Chiang, who was in Shijiazhuang to command the Northern Expedition, strongly demanding that Zhu Peide's two armies of the Yunnan Army and the two armies of Hunan Province be transferred back to the border between Jiangxi Province and Hunan and Jiangxi Province to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the communist forces.

Li Jishen's telegram quickly attracted the great attention of Commander-in-Chief Chiang and the central government in Nanjing.

Commander-in-Chief Jiang never thought that there had been no result in the wooing of Zheng Yi so far, and in the blink of an eye, the tutor had expanded to western Fujian, and if it was not controlled and cracked down on in time, the entire western Fujian might be red, and then it would form a trend that would not fall.

At the behest of Lao Chiang, the two major newspapers of the Kuomintang once again began to report on the "serious banditry" on the Jiangxi-Fujian border, the southern Jiangxi region, and the Hunan-Jiangxi border, and denounced by name the party-state traitor Zheng Yi for leading tens of thousands of men and horses to attack the city and slaughter thousands of enlightened gentry and landlords and wealthy businessmen, which once again caused a shock in the domestic public opinion circles.

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Tian Antai and the officers and men of the guard regiment led by him had no idea that their rescue operation would cause such a huge repercussion, and they still marched to Wuping County according to the established plan.

However, the Guard Regiment moved much faster than the division leadership had speculated, and just after four o'clock in the afternoon it had taken down Shifang Town, which had bypassed from the side.

More than 300 local armed forces stationed in Shifang Town were killed before they could react, and all the rest obediently raised their hands to surrender, and the whole process from firing the first shot to the final disarming took less than five minutes.

After successfully taking Shifang Town, the choke point connecting northern Guangdong with western and southern Fujian, all the wounded and sick and the officers and men of the Red Fourth Division stayed behind for a temporary rest.

The various units of the guard regiment continued to rush to Wuping County without stopping, and it took only one hour and forty minutes to complete the 13-kilometer mountain road, and successfully arrived at the mountain road crossing 2.8 kilometers south of Wuping City.

Although Comrade Peng Peng and Yuan Guoping, commander of the Red Fourth Division, had not yet recovered, they still insisted on accompanying the officers and men of the guard regiment with each other, hoping to observe the battle of attacking Wuping County at close range.

The two comrades, like Tian Antai, rode horses and were amazed by the astonishing marching speed, superior endurance and strict marching posture of the guards regiment from beginning to end.

When they learned that each officer and soldier carried more than two bases of ammunition, plus backpacks, water bottles, and grenades, and carried an average weight of more than 25 kilograms, the two comrades, Peng Peng and Yuan Guoping, were deeply shocked.

"Twenty minutes off, let's get started!"

Tian Antai put the exquisite pocket watch in his jacket pocket, and after giving the order, he didn't seem to be worried at all, and let the chief of staff Liu Qihui and the two battalion commanders lead the troops to rush out of the mountain pass, and the troops divided into two roads and advanced quickly towards the county seat of Wuping.

Yuan Guoping hurriedly asked, "Shall we go along and have a look?" ”

Tian Antai patted the neck of the war horse beside him, turned around and explained with a smile: "Fifteen minutes ago, the spy company and the police company took the first step and went around the north of the city along the path at the foot of the mountain, and the two infantry battalions still had to walk 2.5 kilometers to attack, and the battle would start at least ten minutes later. ”

"Don't worry, rest for a while, and let's ride over after the gun goes off, haha!"

Yuan Guoping was speechless, and helped her thick myopic glasses, not knowing what to say for a while.

The surging was even more anxious than Yuan Guoping: "It's better to keep up as soon as possible, each of your squads has a light machine gun, and the platoon commander and company commander each have a flower machine gun in addition to the shell gun on their waists, and the firepower of a battalion is almost surpassing that of one of our divisions." ”

"There are only more than 400 local militia forces in Wuping County, where can they withstand your powerful firepower? Maybe a charge battle will be over, and then what will we see? ”

"Hurry! Get on the horse. ”

Tian Antai couldn't help but be happy when he heard Comrade Peng's words, in fact, he didn't want any accidents for the two comrades, Peng Peng and Yuan Guoping, so he deliberately stayed at the back of the team, but seeing that Comrade Peng was so anxious, he had to agree to set off immediately, and quietly made a gesture to a squad of guard soldiers waiting in front before getting on the horse.

As a result, the three of them just turned over and got on their horses, and the guards and soldiers in front of them had already taken the lead in running out of the mountain pass, six of them continued to fight their horses forward, and the other six people reined in the war horses, and waited for Tian Antai and Comrade Peng Peng and Yuan Guoping to ride over and hurriedly followed, and the three of them were closely guarded in the middle of the team, which made Peng Peng and Yuan Guoping grateful and deeply helpless.

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"Bang bang—"

"Woo-"

"Dada-da-"

The gunfire of the attack soon rang out, and Tian Antai and his party were still about a kilometer away from the county seat in front, and the clever guard squad leader immediately reported to Tian Antai:

"Commander, there is a gentle slope two hundred meters away in front of the right, and it seems that you can ride a horse to the top of the slope."

"Lead the way!"

Tian Antai was very happy, and together with the two comrades Peng Pao and Yuan Guoping, they galloped on horseback, followed the guards and soldiers and rushed to the gentle slope in front of the right.

At this time, in the direction of Wuping County in front, the dense gunfire and the explosion of grenades had already resounded.

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